The Prediction of Jesus’ Birth

26 Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee named[a] Nazareth, 27 to a virgin legally promised in marriage to a man named[b] Joseph of the house of David. And the name of the virgin was Mary. 28 And he came to her and[c] said, “Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you.”

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 1:26 Literally “to which the name”
  2. Luke 1:27 Literally “to whom the name”
  3. Luke 1:28 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“came”) has been translated as a finite verb